Disaster response, even at its most heroic, can fall to people who would rather be somewhere else.

Yoshida's Dilemma: One Man's Struggle to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe, by Rob Gihooly.422 pagesINKNBEANS PRESS, Nonfiction.

So it was for Masao Yoshida, who, while helming the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant during the disaster in 2011, gave the groan, "Why does this happen on my shift?"